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ART. XXVIl] BOARD OF PRISON CONTROL. 229
lenge or with respect to the fees in criminal cases, or to make any crime
infamous, by reason of any sentence to the Maryland Penitentiary, or
transfer thereto, which would not have been an infamous crime before
this Act takes effect; and it is further provided that nothing in this
Section shall be construed to prevent any Court from committing any
minor to any industrial school or juvenile reformatory to which minors
may now be committed under existing law.
1916, ch. 556, sec. 655.
655. When any person is convicted before any Justice of the Peace
having criminal jurisdiction, of any misdemeanor, committed after
October 1, 1916, and punishable by imprisonment in jail, or by fine and
imprisonment in jail (other than imprisonment in default of fine), the
said Justice of the Peace shall have power in his discretion to sentence
such person to be confined in the Maryand House of Correction; and
all sentences of imprisonment for over six months imposed by such
Justice upon such person, shall be to the Maryland House of Correction
All sentences to the Maryland House of Correction, under this Section
may be for a term of imprisonment up to but not exceeding the maxi-
mum term in jail which the Justice might have imposed for the offense
committed had this Section not been enacted; provided, however, that
in no case whatsoever shall any Justice sentence any person to imprison-
ment in the Maryland House of Correction for more than three years
nor for less than three months, except that any sentence under section
414 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Crimes
and Punishments," sub-title "Railroads—Obstructing," may be imposed
in accordance with the provisions of said section 414. And it is further
provided that nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent any
Justice having jurisdiction from committing any minor to any indus-
trial school or juvenile reformatory to which minors may now be com-
mitted under existing law.
1916, ch. 556, sec. 656.
656. The salaries of the members of said State Board of Prison
Control and the salaries or compensation of every employee of said
Board and every Warden, and other employees connected with the
Maryland Penitentiary, the Maryland House of Correction shall be paid
by the said Board out of any funds in the hands of said Board, or by
the State Treasurer upon warrant of the Comptroller of the Treasury,
out of the funds hereinafter appropriated.
Every, member of said State Board of Prison Control, and every
employee of said Board, and every Warden, and other employees con-
nected with any of said institutions, shall have reimbursed to him all
actual and necessary traveling and other expenses which the said Board
may certify to have been incurred by him in the discharge of his official
duties; and the said reimbursements shall be made by the said Board
out of any funds in the hands of said Board, or by the State Treasurer,
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